"Spotlight on China: Changes in Education under China's Market Economy, edited by S. Guo & Y. Guo"

Spotlight on China: Changes in Education under China’s Market Economy provides a panoramic and penetrating overview of Chinese education in a dynamic period of fundamental social change. The insightful chapters included in the volume grapple with the potholes and distractions, as well as benefits and opportunities, that the socialist market economy has generated for Chinese education. Upon finishing the volume, it is hard for any reader to avoid the conclusion that China’s transformation from the centrally planned economy to the market-oriented economy has, and will continue to have, paramount implications for Chinese education, the reshaping of the school curriculum (Section I), the dynamics and politics of school teaching and private tutoring (Section II), the structural and functional changes in higher education (Section III), the employability and career prosperity of the new generation labor force (Section IV), as well as the residual and emergent educational and social inequalities (Section V). In this respect, the scope of the volume should be commended, and the publication of the volume is timely